This happened to two of my mage accounts, grinding the first account I didn’t see what caused it, but after doing the duel quest with the second account I recognized the much-lowered damage. I was grinding my second account after about a week of reporting this bug to Discord mods and thought that account was a unique case that wouldn’t happen again but it appears to not be as it happened to the second account too. This bug doesn’t disappear after I rejoin and stays there which causes the below.
The blast previously did 160 went to 90 damage.
The beam previously did 100 went to 70 damage.
You have to awaken to fix your damage. I think the damage reduction is meant to only apply once you are able to awaken, to disincentivize not awakening your build.
Bruh, the whole point is to grind a decent enough level to get Calvus done easily and not have to go back to Ravenna as it will force you to finish the Ravenna story to spawn at Wind-Row island and not miss the opportunity to grind Ravenna quests without troops instant killing you by seeing you after the Mayor Tilly hostage scene.
this feature should be removed.
the story will literally be impossible to move through without awakening anyways so choosing not to isn’t an option anyways.
players don’t need an “incentive” to go awaken when its already a strict upgrade to whatever they’re doing and the disincentive is literally being unable to progress until you do lol.
Why not just do the quests the moment u hit lvl 93…?
The way i do things is i start up the immediate available Ravenna quests, skip through Revon’s speech and ignore him till i reach lvl 110. While omw to lvl 110 i just do other Ravenna quests i haven’t started just yet and other quests i just unlocked.
Then once the whole journey to lvl 110 is over i talk to Revon and complete the Ravenna Chapter.
Afterwards im maxed by the time i get awakening or im only 1-2 lvls off which weirdly happens on occassion.
Nobody mentioned there was a 50% damage reduction penalty for going above level 93 and grinding the extra levels is supposed to give stats to help fight the boss easier but instead, halves the stat you gained and already have.
It’s happening to both of ur files because u went overboard and went to max lvl before continuing the story… The dmg reduction is there doing it’s thing/purpose like meta said, and is basically saying “you’ve pretty much completed the current story, go get ur awakening”.
But in ur case it has the added unforeseen consequence of nerfing urself when trying to make things easier as you put it.
True, but w/ me specifically i do it so i don’t have to go lvl up further after completing the story. Was not in the mood of having to do what i did on my Main file to reach max and having to repeat the samething w/ the 28 files i have.
To which i have still yet to max all of them, but thats mainly cause of other priorities i have placed on myself.
Found lvl 110 to be the general sweet-spot to go from Talking to Revon and being max or just a lvl or two behind max when u’ve completed the entire Bronze Sea story.
Regardless though i wish you luck on going past this interesting situation u’ve found yourself.
I’m pretty sure this is meant to only apply if you are eligible for an awakening. So the issue the original poster is experiencing is a bug, which I have just now reported.
Yay, the damage went back to normal when I awaken after beating Carina and Calvus with some help, by the way, my second account wasn’t even max level just about 110 before the big damage reduction hit.
